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'Times' Deputy Counsel On Fighting For Press Freedom In The Trump Era

1:41pm March 12, 2019

by Terry Gross

David McCraw of The New York Times talks about legal issues he's faced on the job — from the president's lawyer threatening to sue for libel to the decision to publish WikiLeaks documents.

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Pocahontas and the English Boys, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

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'Pocahontas And The English Boys' Bridged 2 Wildly Different Cultures

10:00am March 12, 2019

by Marcela Davison Avilés

Historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shines a new light on Pocahontas, showing how she made her way as a go-between for her two cultures, and introducing us to her long-forgotten English counterparts.

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Entertained But Underwhelmed By This European Bestseller? Join 'The Club'

7:00am March 12, 2019

by Michael Schaub

German author Takis Würger's debut novel, a thriller about a secret society at Cambridge University, also tackles hot-button issues of privilege and toxic masculinity. It's now out in English.

Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, a professor at the University of California, Irvine who is often tipped for the Nobel Prize in Literature, has issued a new collection of short stories.

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'Nobel Of The Heart' Is The Real Prize For Author Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

6:04am March 12, 2019

by Lynn Neary

The U.S.-based Kenyan writer is often tipped for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now he's released Minutes of Glory, a short story collection which he calls his "literary autobiography."

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Barbara Brown Taylor is an ordained Episcopal priest who left her job as rector of a church to become a professor of religion.

For Priest Turned Professor, 'Holy Envy' Is Key To Appreciating World Religions

4:12pm March 11, 2019

by Terry Gross

Ordained Episcopal priest Barbara Brown Taylor says that teaching the different religions of the world changed her students' understanding of faith — as well as her own.

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Martin Clunes plays Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton in the Acorn TV miniseries Manhunt.

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'Manhunt' Highlights The Teamwork That Took Down A Serial Killer

2:15pm March 11, 2019

by John Powers

A new British mini-series takes a murder that became a tabloid spectacle in the United Kingdom and transforms it into a deft primer on the unspectacular reality of police work.

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'The Volunteer' Is A War Story Unlike Any Other

7:00am March 11, 2019

by Jason Sheehan

Salvatore Scibona's new novel is a generational saga, an epic of Vietnam and other places rendered in language that makes even simple things sound mythic. But first, a boy is abandoned at an airport.

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Menstruate? Celebrate! New Novel Urges Girls To Embrace 'The Moon Within'

9:10am March 10, 2019

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Author Aida Salazar didn't want her daughter to feel ashamed about getting her period. "I wanted to reframe the conversation," Salazar says. "I wanted to tell a different story."

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All Hipsters Don't Look The Same, OK?

8:11am March 10, 2019

Gideon Lichfield of the MIT Technology Review talks about how a man blasted the publication for using a photo of him in a story about how all hipsters look the same, but it was someone else.

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'The Altruists' Asks: How Do You Live A Good Life?

7:00am March 10, 2019

by Heller McAlpin

Andrew Ridker's sharp, compassionate first novel follows a family of flawed but sympathetic bumblers whose efforts to do good more often end up causing harm — to themselves and others.